Free Software Activity: A Playlist maker for MPD based on genre and BPM

Steven Saus injects people with radioactivity as his day job, but only to serve the forces of good. His work has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines both online and off. He also publishes as Alliteration Ink. You can find him at stevensaus.com and alliterationink.com.

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I’ve used the data that MPDQ creates to make a playlist generator for MPD. It makes it pretty easy to make playlists based on (currently) two criteria – genre and BPM. Using Zenity, you’ll get a prompt asking you where to save the playlist, which genres to include, then what BPM to center around (and how much variation there should be). Then, with just a touch of computer magic, you’ll get a nice playlist.